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Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, 78, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Dec. 1982 killings of 15 opponents of his then-incumbent regime.

Former Suriname president Desi Bouterse was set to head behind bars for the 1982 killings of political opponents

Surinames ex-president Desi Bouterse will be jailed after losing his appeal against a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of political opponents over four decades ago, the prosecutors office said Thursday.

On what should be the final decision on the fate of former South American dictator Desi Bouterse, who used to rule Suriname with an iron fist, a court upheld his 20-year prison sentence.

The former president remains chair of the National Democratic Party and some fear unrest in parts of the country

Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, 78, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Dec. 1982 killings of 15 opponents of his then-incumbent regime.

Paramaribo: Suriname s highest court on Wednesday upheld a 20 year prison sentence for ex president Desi Bouterse, who lost an appeal against his conv...

Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse, 78, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1982 murders of 15 political opponents.The notorious "December murders" were prosecuted over the course of a 16-year criminal case."We have received a gem of a verdict," Hugo Essed, a lawyer for the victims’ relatives, said of the case, before

PARAMARIBO (AP): Suriname’s former dictator Desi Bouterse was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for the murders of 15 opponents of the then-military regime in December 1982, ending a historic 16-year legal process. Bouterse, 78, was...

An ex-elected president (and dictator?) of the former Dutch colony of Suriname, Desi Bouterse has been confirmed he must spend twenty years in prison for the execution of fifteen political opponents in December 1982, according to the ruling of a three-judge appeal panel.